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- "Dipping
into books online: Is it stealing? Amazon.com
says its new 'Search Inside the Book' feature has boosted sales. But authors
worry that people will read just what they need and not buy the book."
... "Late last month, Amazon.com opened a whole new portal to the world
of books. The cyberretailer's new "Search Inside the Book" feature makes
the entire content of books available -free - to anyone with a high-speed
internet connection and a credit card." ... "Now, Web surfers can unearth,
read, and even print recipes, travel tips, or anything else mentioned in
the 120,000 books whose publishers have let Amazon make their texts fully
searchable." -By John C. Ryan
-CSMonitor
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- Microsoft
News - "Web
patent critics spotlight old technology." ... "If
Web technologists can find the right example, they believe they can help
set aside a federal jury's recent finding that Microsoft had violated a
patent held by tiny Web developer Eolas Technologies. The so-called '906
patent describes a way that a Web browser can call up a separate application
from within a Web page." ... "Eolas gained international attention with
its $521 million patent infringement victory over Microsoft, a judgment
that has focused the attention of the software industry in a way few other
patent cases have. Microsoft has already detailed plans to change its Internet
Explorer browser, which could force countless Web developers to rewrite
their Web pages." -By Paul Festa-CNET/News
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- "Targets
of File-Sharing Lawsuits Warned: Recording
Industry Sends Out Warnings Before Next Wave of Lawsuits Over Illegal File
Sharing." ... "The record industry's trade group has warned 204 people
suspected of illegally swapping music over the Internet that it plans to
file lawsuits against them." ... "The letters give the recipients 10 days
to contact the RIAA to discuss a settlement and avoid a formal lawsuit.
The RIAA declined to identify the individuals, but said they were sharing
an average of more than 1,000 songs on their computers."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
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- Microsoft
News - "Microsoft
Vows To Crush The Mouse That Roared." ... "A federal
jury ruled that Microsoft should pay tiny Eolas Technologies and the University
of California $521 million for infringing on their patent for sending software
applications over the Internet. But Microsoft, as is its habit, insists
that the jury verdict is not the end of the story but the beginning, that
it did nothing wrong and even if it did that the remedy is out of whack
with the wrong. This is what Microsoft often says after losing a trial
and before the inevitable appeals." -By Dan Ackman
-Forbes
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- "To
Fox, 'Fair and Balanced' Doesn't Describe Al Franken."
... "In the dry corner of business law called trademark litigation, Fox
v. Franken is an unusually lively document. Along with mundane accusations
of unfair competition, the lawsuit includes some especially derisive remarks
about the defendant, Al Franken, the political satirist." ... "The court
papers were filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan and became public
yesterday. In the lawsuit, a judge is being asked to decide an important
question: who has the right to use the word "fair" and the word "balanced"
together, connected by the word "and"?" ... "Lawyers for Fox News Network,
part of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, News Corporation, contend that Mr.
Franken should not be allowed to use those words in the title of his new
book due in stores next month, "Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them:
A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" (Penguin)." -By
Susan Saulny -NYTimes
via -Google-News
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- "Fox
Sues Humor Writer for Using 'Signature' Slogan."
... "Fox News Network is suing humor writer Al Franken for trademark infringement
over the phrase "fair and balanced" on the cover of his upcoming book,
saying it has been "a signature slogan" of the network since 1996."-Reuters
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- "Air
Force punishes Boeing by taking 7 contracts." ...
"Handing down some of the harshest penalties ever against a defense contractor,
the U.S. Air Force on Thursday stripped Boeing (BA) of seven rocket-launch
contracts and also indefinitely suspended Boeing's rocket defense units
from competing for military contracts." ... "The penalties cap a yearlong
Air Force probe into allegations that Boeing, the nation's No. 2 defense
contractor after Lockheed Martin, used thousands of pages of stolen Lockheed
documents in 1998 to beat its rival for contracts to build a military satellite-launch
rocket." -By Edward Iwata
-USATODAY
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- "Hatch
Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading." ... "During a
discussion on methods to frustrate computer users who illegally exchange
music and movie files over the Internet, [Utah's Republican Senator Orrin]
Hatch asked technology executives about ways to damage computers involved
in such file trading. Legal experts have said any such attack would violate
federal anti-hacking laws." ... ""No one is interested in destroying anyone's
computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles
company that builds technology to disrupt music downloads. One technique
deliberately downloads pirated material very slowly so other users can't."
... ""I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer
"may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."" -By
Ted Bridis -AP
via -WashingtonPost
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- "Software
Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy." ... "Some
of the world's biggest record companies, facing rampant online piracy,
are quietly financing the development and testing of software programs
that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who
download pirated music, according to industry executives." ... "The record
companies are exploring options on new countermeasures, which some experts
say have varying degrees of legality, to deter online theft: from attacking
personal Internet connections so as to slow or halt downloads of pirated
music to overwhelming the distribution networks with potentially malicious
programs that masquerade as music files." (1, 2)
-By Andrew Ross Sorkin
-NYTimes via -Google-News
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- "4
students to pay fines for 'Napsterlike' sites." ...
"Four college students will pay the major music labels fines ranging from
$12,000 to $17,000 each for sharing music on campus networks, the first
time file-swapping individuals have agreed to pay damages to the music
industry for copyright violations." ... "Students at Princeton, Michigan
Tech and Rensselaer were sued in early April for setting up what the Recording
Industry Association of America called "Napsterlike" internal networks
that shared up to 1 million songs on campus servers. The RIAA asked for
$150,000 a song; the four settled out of court Thursday for $60,000." -By
Jefferson Graham -USATODAY
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- "Recording
industry targets users of Kazaa, Grokster with warnings."
... "The Recording Industry Association of America, a trade association,
will collect the user names of those it suspects are offering copyright
material with the Kazaa and Grokster file-sharing services, RIAA President
Cary Sherman told reporters during a conference call Tuesday." ... "He
called the effort "educational" and said "there's no enforcement connected
to this."" ... "In a separate action, the RIAA has sued four college students
who allegedly offered more than 1 million recordings over the Internet,
demanding damages of $150,000 per song." -By Alex
Veiga -AP
via -SFGate.com
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- "Judge
rules file-sharing tools are legal: A US federal
judge has reversed many of the recording industry's previous victories
over peer-to-peer services, comparing Morpheus and Grokster software to
VCRs and photocopy machines." ... "In an almost complete reversal of previous
victories for the record labels and movie studios, federal court Judge
Stephen Wilson ruled that Streamcast -- parent of the Morpheus software
-- and Grokster were not liable for copyright infringements that took place
using their software. The ruling does not directly affect Kazaa, software
distributed by Sharman Networks, which has also been targeted by the entertainment
industry." -By John Borland with contributions by
Lisa Bowman -CNET/News
-ZDNet.co.ukt>News
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- "Net
Providers Must Help in Piracy Fight: Judge
Orders Internet Providers to Help Trace Users Who Illegally Download Music."
... "Internet providers must abide by music industry requests to track
down computer users who illegally download music, a federal judge ruled
Tuesday in a case that could dramatically increase online pirates' risk
of being caught." ... "The decision by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates
upheld the recording industry's powers under a 1998 law to compel Verizon
Communications Inc. to identify one of its Internet subscribers who was
suspected of illegally trading music or movies online." ... "Verizon promised
Tuesday to appeal and said it would not immediately provide its customer's
identity." -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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